pfSense with AirVPN which should I use DNS forwarder or resolver?

[BirdDad]

and what do the settings do
which settings should I use and which should I avoid?

 

[sdifox]

Doesn't AirVPN provide a DNS server?

 

[BirdDad]

I think so

 

[BirdDad]

but the tutorial said to do this and that to the DNS forwarder, I was told that I should enable DNS resolver not forwarder.
Thank you for your response.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'm not familiar with AirVPN but do use pfsense. Resolver is a DNS server, while forwarder forwards to another server, such as an internal DNS server or ISP DNS server. Typically you would probably just want to set a DNS IP in your DHCP settings and use neither of those options. So if you use your ISPs DNS, Google, Open DNS etc you would just put that IP in the DHCP settings to be pushed to the clients.

The forwarder would basically do that, but it would use the gateway IP as the DNS server. Good if you want to hide the real server, such as if it's internal.

 

[sdifox]

but the tutorial said to do this and that to the DNS forwarder, I was told that I should enable DNS resolver not forwarder.
Thank you for your response.

DNS forwarder is used when you setup static ips and point to your gateway as DNS server. That way you just need to update pfsense DNS server pointer and you are done should you decide T change. I would just run DHCP server and reserve IP for each machine.

 

[BirdDad]

Thanks guys